Death by a thousand cuts, not slippery slope.

I'm saying every industry is finding new ways to squeeze their user base.

Attempting infinite growth is a function of capitalism. If you have no market to grow into you wring out what you can from existing customers.

Have you not noticed the rise in cost of necessities, fast food, and housing against stagnant wages?

I ended up buying a 5900X + B550 Aorus Elite kit from Aliexpress since I couldn't find it in stores

I would think that it might be much easier to get a used PC laptop for cheap in a developing nation than an esoteric machine like this. Plus, people there are often more concerned with survival and sustenance, so they more interested in a computer that can be actually used to generate some form of revenue (and software compatibility is a big factor here). Not to mention that previous initiatives like OLPC have failed to achieve any noteworthy success. And Raspberry Pi's are used by hobbyists and tinkerers mostly in the West, hardly in developing countries. So I kind of doubt this particular angle makes much sense.

Looking at the Balthazar project webpage it seems like one of the envisioned usage scenarios is the classroom... but from the rhetorics and promises it kind of sounds to me like it is done by a bunch of people stuck inside a certain ideology bubble. Very few people are interested in that kind of stuff and GNU apostles are unfortunately known for being rather out of touch with reality.

I was thinking of buying one as I was looking for a new CPU. Then I saw the price. Sod that, I can wait.

I thought it said prostitutes at first and thought that's some kinky stuff

My dreams of winning in TypeRacer have never felt so close.

Companies: Get demand surge during lockdowns

Also Companies when they don't get the same sales after lockdown: Suprisedpikachu

Capitalism is so fucking stupid, every corporation is like one of those people with no long term memory

At least unlike the 90s, our PC hardware doesn't become irrelevant in 2 years. I'm only now starting to see problems using a Ryzen 3600, but I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, and it's only in specific scenarios. Waiting for the 7950X3D's benchmark before I upgrade and stick with a platform for a few years, but if the 14th gen Intel chips are the power efficiency powerhouse rumours say, I might just skip AMD altogether.

No market for this.

10 series? Try 9 or 7, the 970, outside of being 3.5GB+0.5GB, was exceptionally good performance for $329.

Literally 0 all star jokes in the comments? Come on guys.

Intel helps develop RISC V and they make the chips. Moving people away from ARM is helpful to Intel.

Also ARM isnt open-source and its not free. So there is a cost to build off their IP

I could see this being good for IoT.

But can I have the mad max edition

Trackpad on top of the keyboard. Did AI design this!?

It's not about the price, at least not primarily. This will be the same trend as Microsoft pointed out during their earnings call:

During the pandemic lockdown, everyone who needed new hardware bought it. It was this massive global event where millions of home computers and consoles that were kinda alright because they didn't get used much suddenly got an upgrade.

This is just the opposite side of that trend. Machines that were slowing down in 2020 and early 2021 got replaced, and those are the machines that *would have" died in 2022.

Yep, didn’t say it wasn’t, it’s the reason the saying “gotta spend money to make money” exists

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No, it’s bad beat. Like having four jacks in hold ‘em and being beat by a straight flush. Often casino poker rooms have a pot for the best “non-winning” hand of the day.

Okay? Still a funny little sentence, though apparently fairly normal for somewhere utterly corrupt like America lol

Jesus christ hire a designer

The RAM is on a board with the CPU, that board is removable and thus upgradable.

I think a better analogy here is: you can upgrade your transmission but you also have to change your engine at the same time (even if it may be for the same spec engine).

I see you have never heard of the military industrial complex

Time to make several new sockets!

Buy the first thumb get the second thumb free?

Ok I thought it was just me. The last time I upgraded my motherboard was 5 years ago and I payed $180 for top of the line one. I recently was building a new build and just gave up because of the prices of motherboards are straight up ridiculous now.